This is a DOS game which works fine on my Windows 98 laptop, but for some reason Windows XP doesn't seem to like it (it wasn't added to Abandonia for that reason, actually). When I tried running the game in DOSBox on my Windows XP computer at home and selected VGA graphics, the intro worked fine, but as soon as the actual game began, the characters just disappeared and turned into a blur on the green background. Oddly enough, I didn't seem to have any problems when I selected CGA mode.

I suppose that means it's a problem with my computer rather than with DOSBox, but might there be any way of tricking the computer, perhaps?

Edit: Dang, I completely forgot I won't be able to access that computer before the first week of December anyway. Oh well, never mind. Sorry for posting.

To add some more information for future reference:
DOSBox version: 0.63

Oops, sorry. Version 0.63 is the only version I ever tried, so I forgot to include that bit. I'll remember it next time.

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You can run DOSBox on win98 as well if you feel the urge to test it.

Actually I did try that, but I'm afraid I'm experiencing Known Problem #1 ("Failed to create rendering output") whenever I try to run DOSBox on my laptop, and I'm not entirely sure whether I understood the suggested solution correctly. What I tried was the bloody obvious, i.e. copying and pasting the line SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib into the config file, but that didn't make any difference, so I suspect I misunderstood something.
I also followed the link to the SDL site (solution #2) in search of that SDL.DLL file, but I'm afraid I couldn't find it, because the site is a bit confusing if you haven't got a clue what sdl.dll is or what it does exactly. Again, I tried the bloody obvious (checking the "libraries" section), but again, the bloody obvious doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for.

So I'll just try it on the other computer when I get back. But thanks anyway.